Month: January 2020
Slamdance Film Review: Sanzaru
The disorienting and claustrophobic thirller Sanzaru shows a solid potential for director Xia Magnus in their thematic concepts, visuals and soundscapes. … read more
Rex Orange County @ The Union Event Center 01.23
Anyone who can keep up with a night of multicolored, flashing stage lights and a bouncing performer should definitely attend a Rex Orange County show. … read more
Film Review: Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a terrific film that deserves to be seen and discussed—it might even help change the way people think about how they treat each other. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Tahara
Speaking to the potential of toxicity in friendships that take place early in life, Olivia Peace’s Tahara encourages the safety of autonomy. … read more
Slamdance: Ask No Questions
Viewers must approach Ask No Questions as a investigative documentary instead of another conspiracy-theory proposal. The film begins with the account of a CNN reporter who, with her cameraman, captures the scene of what is televised as a Falun Gong “religious public suicide” in Beijing at Tiananmen Square. … read more
The Present is Female: The 2020 Womxn’s March
This 2020 Womxn’s March saw people all over the country raising their voices against ongoing injustices against women, and Salt Lake was no different. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Bastards’ Road
Bastards’ Road is a film portraying a sense of hope in veterans creating their own network, breaking down the stigma of struggling with PTSD and reaching out to one another. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Murmur
Writer-director Heather Young approaches the themes of love, loneliness and dependence from a different angle in her award-winning feature debut, Murmur. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers
Really, all of the actors of The Killing of Two Lovers do a great job. The writing, however, keeps its semblances of story low to the ground and linear. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier
The audience shifted nervously in their seats as mushroom clouds blossomed and Cold War events unfolded in Dominic Cooke’s Ironbark. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Summertime
Summertime Sundance Film Festival Director: Carlos López Estrada Opening with a girl wearing roller skates, singing poetry into her guitar on a pier in Venice Beach, Summertime establishes the plot as a snapshot in the day of a life of different teens and young adults around Los Angeles. There are many characters in the story,
Film Review: Dolittle
Dolittle isn’t going to be winning any awards, but if you’re looking for a fun, fast-paced family movie, you could do a lot worse. … read more
